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ArtPrize 2009, Grand Rapids, MI. Photo courtesy of Brian Kelly.

ArtPrize: Reflecting On and Refining an Open Art Competition

ArtPrize: Reflecting On and Refining an Open Art Competition

Last August, I wrote a post on this blog called ArtPrize: An Experiment in Decentralized Curation and Competition. At that time, the team I work with was a month away …

Liz Larner, 2010. Courtesy Regen Projects.

Looking at Los Angeles

Wholeheartedly Real

Looking at Los Angeles

Wholeheartedly Real

Judith Butler, the always agile theorist responsible for Gender Trouble, often says diplomatically dense things like, “a lesbian is what I have been being since college.” She would not say, …

On teaching art to scientists

On teaching art to scientists

This July, I’ll be teaching a course I developed on the intersections of contemporary art and science, for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). My students are advanced high schoolers, attending two-week …

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art & Experience

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art & Experience

We each look at the world from our own individual perspectives, within contexts that are constantly shifting.  Our unique outlook as viewers, the specific viewpoint of the artist, the curatorial …

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Better Than Ketchup and Vaseline

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Better Than Ketchup and Vaseline

Twice recently I have been contacted by teachers who have run into some trouble sharing Art21 videos with their classes. In both cases these teachers were called by parents (and …

Welcome to Provence!

Open Enrollment

On Exchange from Canada to France: Reflecting on Change and Difference

Open Enrollment

On Exchange from Canada to France: Reflecting on Change and Difference

At one point, I thought that I had an understanding of what my personal practice consisted of, but it wasn’t until the end of my MFA residency that I really …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Archiving Soul | Ken Shipley of Numero Group

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Archiving Soul | Ken Shipley of Numero Group

While sitting in his office listening to some soon to be released albums, Ken Shipley quickly noted, “we have found a way as a record label to be like a …

Where Was I?

Where Was I?

One of my ongoing curatorial interests has been the relationship between perception and subject formation — how does what we perceive say about who we are, and vice versa? How …

The Fecund Culture Wars, or, How to Tie a Bowtie

The Fecund Culture Wars, or, How to Tie a Bowtie

Perhaps we took the Culture Wars theme of spring and nature a bit too far, but we hoped that it provided fertile ground for some healthy competition, and it did. …

New guest blogger: Liz K. Sheehan

New guest blogger: Liz K. Sheehan

Thanks to Evan J. Garza for sharing his take on art and the market with us. Up next is Liz K. Sheehan, an independent curator and educator currently living in …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

Holey maps, pre-natal forms, stuffed animals, and more in today’s roundup: The first exhibition in the United States ever devoted exclusively to the drawings of Season 3 artist Roni Horn …

uc occupation

(UC Crisis) Post 1: The Story of a Movement – Overview

(UC Crisis) Post 1: The Story of a Movement – Overview

To explain the recent investigations into the web-art projects of both Ricardo Dominguez and  b.a.n.g. lab collaborators at UC San Diego and Ken Ehrlich of UC Riverside is to tell …

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Susan Rothenberg: Bruce & the Studio

Art21 Extended Play

Susan Rothenberg: Bruce & the Studio

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Big Huge End of the Year M.F.A. Group Show

Open Enrollment

Big Huge End of the Year M.F.A. Group Show

Corina Reynolds explores the M.F.A. group show/graduate exhibition through audio bloging.

The Immeasurable Distance of Market Value

The Immeasurable Distance of Market Value

Carol Vogel of The New York Times wrote last month that, “Optimism has returned to the multibillion-dollar art market.” She was keen on a 1932 Picasso painting, Nu au Plateau …

Flash Points

Flash Points Wrap-Up: Art For Life

Flash Points

Flash Points Wrap-Up: Art For Life

A friend of mine dated a composer once. He was a good composer. People found his music “inventive” and “ubiquitous” (in a good way). All of his friends were musicians, …

Sharon Lockhart, "Maja and Elodie" 2003 Image: Artnet.com

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Rewind, The Artist’s Studio

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Rewind, The Artist’s Studio

A recent visit to Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art provided two exhibits that are worth seeing if you are in town…. or within frequent flier miles for that matter. Rewind: …

Flash Points

Call for Writers: New Flash Points Topic

Flash Points

Call for Writers: New Flash Points Topic

Our new Flash Points topic, Art and Experience, will be launching soon and we’re inviting you to participate!  If this sounds good to you, read on: We each have our …

Realness: The House of Newsome

Realness: The House of Newsome

My partner and I throw a monthly gay dance night in Cambridge with some DJ friends of ours. For 10 months, most dancing has been reserved for the last hour …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

In today’s roundup you’ll read about 800 prints in Los Angeles, 100 acres of art in Indianapolis, 12 Polaroids near the Hudson, a 10-year survey in Ohio, two portrait busts …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Paint, Misbehaving

Letter from London

Letter from London: Paint, Misbehaving

Writing about painting isn’t easy, simply because painting isn’t built to be written about. So writers writing about painting tend to rely on a checklist of clichés: the one about …

Flash Points

Some Alternatives to Institutional Critique

Flash Points

Some Alternatives to Institutional Critique

In 1974, Hans Haacke mounted an index of the museum’s corporate sponsors and board of trustees along the Guggenheim’s walls. The work, simply titled, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Board of …

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Bailer Losh

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Bailer Losh

Jason Bailer Losh is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in the midwestern town of Denison, IA. Denison is also the birthplace of actress Donna …

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Mike Kelley: “Day Is Done”

Art21 Extended Play

Mike Kelley: “Day Is Done”

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Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Power of Saying Yes

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Power of Saying Yes

Below is a continuation from last week’s column, “Nourishment”, where I began to share excerpts from Carrie Mae Weems’ dialogue with five Baltimore high school students at the most recent …

Open Enrollment

The Exhibition in Art & Business

Open Enrollment

The Exhibition in Art & Business

Oliver Wunsch considers the role of exhibition work in an art historical education by looking at MASS MoCA’s current show InVisible, curated by one of his classmates. Mike Brenner discusses different cost structures of grassroots art exhibitions, and how changing economic times force artists to adapt to find space and funds.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Exhibiting the Intangible

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Exhibiting the Intangible

Recently, Bad at Sports was invited to exhibit at apexart, an alternative gallery space in New York known for presenting innovative thematic exhibitions and public programs. In order to take …

Flash Points

What’s In a Code of Ethics?

Flash Points

What’s In a Code of Ethics?

I am not a professor of ethics.  I have been a curator and a director of new media at a major art museum, but I am first and foremost an …

Soldier On. Culture Wars Returns this Wednesday!

Soldier On. Culture Wars Returns this Wednesday!

After March’s event —with over 120 participants spread across 26 teams— Jonathan Munar, Art21’s Web Manager and I are returning to host the next Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

In today’s roundup, you’ll read about rabbits and cracked eggs, love in the Ole South, community art making in the Twin Cities, an amusement park in Paris, a family of …

The Intangible as Object

The Intangible as Object

In September of last year, Kelly Klaasmeyer, the Houston art critic and Glasstire.com editor, made a pretty deft observation. Writing for the Houston Press, she noted that, “Internet content is …

New guest blogger: Evan Garza

New guest blogger: Evan Garza

Thanks to Nettrice Gaskins for her series of scintillating posts on the wonders and complexities of art and community in Second Life. Follow her adventures back on her own site …

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Beryl Korot: “Radical Software” 1970-74

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Beryl Korot: “Radical Software” 1970-74

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Harbor and Pirats

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds

I like using the word ‘totality’ as in the ‘totality of one’s surroundings.’  Self provides the essentials of our internal existence  and environment is the external display of all that.  …

Open Enrollment

Life After Graduation

Open Enrollment

Life After Graduation

by Matthew Newton and Jeffrey Augustine Songco First, Matthew interviews Hunter College alum Jules de Balincourt on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Deitch Projects, followed by Jeffrey’s look …

Art & the Avatar: Ambiguity of Identity in Virtual 3D Worlds

Art & the Avatar: Ambiguity of Identity in Virtual 3D Worlds

Self is the essential being of a person.  Art is a mirror image of a person’s identity, circle of influence, and perceived worlds or realities.  Art reflects what we feel, …